More than 40 people, among them children and health-care workers, died when a hospital in Sudan’s West Kordofan state was hit at the weekend, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday.
The strike on Al Mujlad Hospital occurred on Saturday near the front line between General al-Burhan’s army (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), whose war has raged since April 2023.
Tedros condemned continued assaults on medical facilities but did not attribute blame. The WHO’s Sudan office said the dead included six children and five medical staff and reported extensive damage to the building.
Emergency Lawyers, a Sudanese human-rights group, accused an SAF drone of carrying out Saturday’s strike; it put the death toll at nine in a statement issued on Sunday.